March 2016

Humboldt native Kevin Dresser, head wrestling coach at Virginia Tech University, was named National Coach of the Year at the end of NCAA National Championships held at Madison Square Garden in New York City last weekend. Dresser guided the Hokies to a fourth-place finish in the team scoring, the best finish in school history.See story in this week's Humboldt Independent Newspaper. Activate the link above to get your subscription started for full print/digital access to the Independent.

Gargantuan, “of immense size, extent or quantity; of exceedingly great scope or nature,” as in a gargantuan effort: that’s an apt description of what took place last Friday and Saturday at the Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall. Over 900 local volunteers packed more than 185,000 meals for the hungry, all part of the Meals from the Heartland meal-raising effort coordinated by the Humboldt County Ministerial Association and the Team 4 Hungry Committee which works and supervises to make sure the assembly line production process works to a tee. Former Meals Executive Director David Bradley said Humboldt is the largest event outside of a statewide meal raising in Des Moines. Find out why in this week's issue. Subscribe to the Humboldt Independent for all the latest news. It's as easy as clicking on the link at the top of this page.

Humboldt High senior guard Thomas Orness was named first-team all-conference while teammate and junior guard Drew Thomas was selected second-team all-conference by the boys basketball coaches of the North Central Conference. They were recognized at the team banquet on Mar. 14. See full story in this week's Independent by subscribing today for print/digital access to the Independent. Click the link above to get started!